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World War II had a dramatic effect on Texas, as federal money poured in to build military bases, munitions factories, POW detention camps and Army hospitals. Over 750,000 Texans left for service; the cities exploded with new industry; the colleges took on new roles; and hundreds of thousands of poor farmers left for much better-paying war jobs ...
The war was fought primarily over Italy, but Great Britain and France launched several attempts to capture Spanish colonies in North America. [37] In June 1719, 7 Frenchmen from Natchitoches took control of Mission San Miguel de los Adaes from its sole defender, who did not know that the countries were at war. The French soldiers explained that ...
In Texas their numbers increased to 300, and they proceeded to take the town of Santísima Trinidad de Salcedo (located on the east bank of the Trinity River at Spanish Bluff, ten miles downriver from the present Highway 31 crossing), on September 13. Their success would push them on; they traveled southward, to conquer the next Spanish stronghold.
[2] The new government established trading outposts near Anahuac along the Trinity River and the Brazos River. They also began the first English-language newspaper ever published in Texas. The Texas Republican lasted only one month, August 1819. [3] Long also contacted Jean Lafitte, who ran a large smuggling operation on Galveston Island.
The Texas–Indian wars were a series of conflicts between settlers in Texas and the Southern Plains Indians during the 19th-century. Conflict between the Plains Indians and the Spanish began before other European and Anglo-American settlers were encouraged—first by Spain and then by the newly Independent Mexican government—to colonize Texas in order to provide a protective-settlement ...
Latin America and the Second World War: Volume 2: 1942-1945 (2016)online; Lauderbaugh, George M., et al. Latin America During World War II (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006) online. Lee, Loyd, ed. World War II in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, with General Sources: A Handbook of Literature and Research (1997) excerpt and text search
The second USS San Jacinto was a United States Navy Independence-class World War II light aircraft carrier commissioned in December 1943 and decommissioned in 1947. [124] The third USS San Jacinto is a decommissioned guided missile cruiser commissioned by the U.S. Navy in 1988 and decommissioned in 2023. [125]
The Congress did allow Texas the option of forming its own state "'as soon as it feels capable of doing so.'" [7] The new state, the poorest in the Mexican federation, [9] covered the boundaries of Spanish Texas but did not include the area around El Paso, which belonged to the state of Chihuahua and the area of Laredo, Texas, which became part ...